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Since February, most staffers have been under a stop-work order that has effectively stalled the bulk of its probes — including ones into debanking.

Bradner and other neighbors had seen other parking spaces in the neighborhood turn into construction sites overnight, such as on Normandie Avenue, where a stop-work order had halted the conversion of a garage into an ADU, making the parking space virtually useless, she said.

The embassy in Nigeria described how stop-work orders had caused lapses in oversight that put U.S. resources at risk of being diverted to criminal or terrorist groups.

“For example,” French wrote, “if people respond to the foreign aid shutdown and the stop-work orders by talking about how children might suffer or die, then they’re exhibiting toxic empathy.”

After Rubio first issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid organizations and contractors around the world in late January, workers from the site were told to stay home for weeks.